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Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

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Re: Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

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Post by eternityforest »

Everything else looks great but those filthy nasty micro HDMIs need to go away. Why do those still exist? It's like still using MicroUSB.

I guess it must have something to do with legacy digital signage or something but still. Full size HDMI is fine because it's what everyone already has cables for, anything small could just be USB-C.

Couldn't they have even just gone with a single USB-C and done the dual monitors with an adapter? Seems like that kind of thing exists on Windows.

Re: Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

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Post by newprint »

eternityforest wrote: post #2

Everything else looks great but those filthy nasty micro HDMIs need to go away. Why do those still exist? It's like still using MicroUSB. I guess it must have something to do with legacy digital signage or something but still. Full size HDMI is fine because it's what everyone already has cables for, anything small could just be USB-C. Couldn't they have even just gone with a single USB-C and done the dual monitors wi…

Physical space is the answer. Board is very small.

Re: Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

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Post by liminalsunset »

eternityforest wrote: post #2

Everything else looks great but those filthy nasty micro HDMIs need to go away. Why do those still exist? It's like still using MicroUSB. I guess it must have something to do with legacy digital signage or something but still. Full size HDMI is fine because it's what everyone already has cables for, anything small could just be USB-C. Couldn't they have even just gone with a single USB-C and done the dual monitors wi…

The problem with putting USB-C video on there is that USB-C is DisplayPort, and there's a good chance for various reasons (last time it was said that at least historically, the Raspberry Pi is a cut down version of a Broadcom chip that was used in a set top box or media player or something) the SoC only has an HDMI interface block on it and not a DisplayPort one. Thus, supporting this would require the addition of at least a converter chip, plus a Type-C port chip, which probably takes up valuable BOM budget. Given how few ICs are present on this board, this was probably not a feature very high on the priorities list.

Re: Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

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Post by liminalsunset »

Seems like the TDP of these Raspberry Pis are really going up this time... On the Pi 4, it was possible to get it to pull over ten watts by overclocking it, and it had a bunch of hacky cooling solutions. It's good to know that the new version of it has a proper 4-pin fan header that doesn't take up GPIOs now, and the official looking fan/heat sink combination actually looks fairly nice and low profile this time around, and no longer relies on double sided tape to hold a heat sink onto the chip.

Re: Rasperry Pi 5 Specs and Images Leaked from Element14?

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Post by et-al »

newprint wrote: post #3
eternityforest wrote: post #2

Everything else looks great but those filthy nasty micro HDMIs need to go away. Why do those still exist? It's like still using MicroUSB. I guess it must have something to do with legacy digital signage or something but still. Full size HDMI is fine because it's what everyone already has cables for, anything small could just be USB-C. Couldn't they have even just gone with a single USB-C and done the dual monitors wi…

Physical space is the answer. Board is very small.

Except the Pi 2s and 3s had a full size HDMI ports.
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